Swept Away

基本解释

Some swept away after clinging to rooftops.
许多在屋顶避难的人被冲走。
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JR, the railway company, reportedthat three passenger trains had not been accounted for as of Saturday night,amid fears that they were swept away by the tsunami.
JR铁路公司报告说，三趟旅客列车没有人乘坐，因为旅客害怕周六晚上乘车有被海啸卷走的危险。
He had become famous largely for chronicling a Europe that had been swept away, and had spent a charmed life without a regular job, fed—as he liked to put it—like Elijah, by the ravens.
他之所以如此出名，是因为他为已经一扫而空的欧洲做了编年史，没有固定工作，但无灾祸地度过了一生，向他经常说的，像以利亚（希伯来先知，译者注）一样被乌鸦喂饱。

"Friendship,position,wealth everything that makes life desirable to an ambitious man were about to be swept away by my answer."
So, all of these financial obstructions that we had built up were suddenly being swept away.
所以我们所有的金融障碍,都忽然消失了。
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Dozens of houses on the outskirts of the Sicilian city were swept away or flattened by heavy rain and mud.

The civil-rights movement swept away many southern traditions, but none that anyone should mourn.
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